Star investigation discovered justice system might have missed chance to keep him in jail

7:46 PM,
Feb. 24, 2013

Tattoos helped identify Greenwood rape suspect Shawn L. Corbally.

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Jury selection will start a trial Monday for a man accused of the brutal rape of a Greenwood woman, a case that led to reforms in the monitoring of sex offenders in Indianapolis.

Johnson County prosecutors say Shawn L. Corbally, 34, attacked a woman at knifepoint in her home in Greenwood's Ashmore Trace Apartment complex in July. The woman's 1-year-old daughter was in bed with her and her 9-year-old son in another room.

Prosecutors say Corbally threatened to kill her children if she resisted or screamed. ...